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GEORGE K. SNOW, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 90,599, dated May 25,1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE K. Snow, of Watertown, in the State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful \Vristband, or (luff; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, to be a full and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improvement in the class of wristbands, or cuffs, which are out from paper or some stiff material resembling paper, and relates to the button holes.

It consists in combining two button-holes of diii'er ent shapes in the same wristband, so that the wristband may be fastened by a stud, or unfastened, with .for the stud, and if of proper size, cannot be detached without applying considerable force to bend the stifl' material of the end. But if this button-hole will not permit the stud to become detached through accident, it will not allow it to be easily removed by design.

The hole at B, on the contrary, allows the stud to be easily detached. The neck of the stud is placed in the part a of the buttonhole, when-the smaller plate-of the stud can be slipped through the remaining long and narrow part with very little bending of the paper or other material. The stud, however, is liable to slip from this button-hole by accident. o

The button-hole at B, as well as the button-hole at A, is not new in itself. Wristbands are made with both holes like the hole shown at B. But while such wrist-bands are easily fastened and unfastened, they are also extremely liable to lose the stud.

S0 wristbands are made with both button-holes like the one at A. Such wristbands do not lose the stud, but they are buttoned and unbnttoned with difficulty.

' By my combination of these two holes, in the same wristband, I obtain what is required, viz, a wristband which can be readily fastened or unfastened when upon the wrist of the wearer, and which, at the same time, will not render the studliable to be lost. I

The two holes are in the usual position of the button-holes of a wristband; that is,-at corners opposite to each other, across the long side of the cuff. -It is advisable, both for safety and facility in fastening and unfastening, that the holes 'should be out, in reference to each otherand the other parts of the cud, as shown in the drawing, where the hole represented at A is cut lengthwise with the cuff, and vthe hole represented at B is cut with the part it towards the corner of the cufi.

To fasten a wristband, containing my invention, the smaller plate of the stud is passed first through the button-hole A, and then through the button-hole B. This brings the hole at A on the outside of the,

fastened cufi, which is always necessary. The stud can then be easily slipped in and out the holeB, while the Hole A holds it fast.

It will be found advantageous to so cut the buttonholes, that'the wristbands may be considered rights and lofts It is suflioiently indicated, in the drawing, how the holes should be out for this purpose. The

side of the cuff there represented is to be considered as the side to be in view when npomthe wrist of the wearer.

When my invention is applied to a reversible wristband, or end, it is best to out the second pair of button-holes in the places represented in the drawing; that is, reversible culi's should have, in each end, two holes which are alike. The button-holes not used with the stud will be used to attach the wristband, or end to the sleeve. When a reversible wristband, which has been worn, is reversed, the hand should be changed. This gives the advantage of rights and lefts.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A wristband, containing two button-holes of different shapes, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

The'above specification of my said invention, signed and witnessed at Boston, this 12th day of March, A. D., 1869.

Witnesses: GEO. K. SNOW.

W. W. SWAN. CHAS. P. GORELY. I 

